Markham (world)
Markham/Bascoj (Old Expanses 3040) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | B54A863-A
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | K2 V M7 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 3 |
Markham is a preindustrial, moderate population water world with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population size.
- Its surface is 90% or more covered in an ocean of water.
- The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 10% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
- As a preindustrial world, this planet cannot yet manufacture enough high-technology resources to support a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
- This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
- It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Bascoj Subsector of Old Expanses Sector.
- This world has a nearby Naval Base, usually associated with military starships.
- This world has a nearby Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
Markham is a binary star system with 12 planets and 21 major satellites. The two stars are 100.1 AU distant from each other and orbit a barycenter 13.6 AU from the primary star. Around the primary star orbits 9 of the planets with the remaining 3 orbiting the secondary star.
Binary Solar System[edit]
Markham Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Markham K2 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.82 4830 - 5100 0.49928 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0036 0.0586 0.7 - 1.26 0.36 3.6 Orbit # * * 3 1 5 Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Markham M7 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.09 2630 - 2680 0.00022 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0006 0.0012 0.02 - 0.03 0.06 0.6 Orbit # * * * * 2
System Data[edit]
Orbit | Distance | UWP | Notes | |
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A | --- | --- | K2 V | |
A: 1 | 0.2984 AU | B54A863-A | Main World | |
A: 2 | 0.4822 AU | Y430000-0 | ||
A: 3 | 0.6208 AU | --- | Large Gas Giant | |
A: 3-1 | 489600 km | Y221000-0 | ||
A: 3-2 | 700800 km | H100000-0 | ||
A: 3-3 | 2476800 km | YS00000-0 | ||
A: 3-4 | 2476800 km | YS00000-0 | ||
A: 3-5 | 2688000 km | YB97266-A | ||
A: 3-6 | 3110400 km | HS00000-0 | ||
A: 3-7 | 5836800 km | YS00000-0 | ||
A: 3-8 | 5836800 km | YS00163-A | ||
A: 3-9 | 5836800 km | YS00268-A | ||
A: 3-10 | 6470400 km | F578363-A | ||
A: 4 | 0.8584 AU | H268000-0 | ||
A: 5 | 1.0732 AU | --- | Large Gas Giant | |
A: 5-1 | 3822933 km | G2A0169-A | ||
A: 5-2 | 6137600 km | YS00000-0 | ||
A: 5-3 | 7123200 km | Y100000-0 | ||
A: 5-4 | 8601600 km | YS00000-0 | ||
A: 5-5 | 8601600 km | YS00163-9 | ||
A: 6 | 1.4692 AU | Y5A0000-0 | ||
A: 7 | 2.5264 AU | F200369-A | ||
A: 8 | 3.2032 AU | Y8B5000-0 | ||
A: 8-1 | 16575 km | 0R000000-0 | ||
A: 8-2 | 66733 km | YS00000-0 | ||
A: 9 | 4.312 AU | Y400000-0 | ||
A: 9-1 | 324240 km | Y200000-0 | ||
C | 100.1 AU | --- | M7 V | |
C: 1 | 0.0073 AU | Y257000-0 | ||
C: 2 | 0.01 AU | --- | Large Gas Giant | |
C: 3 | 0.0139 AU | Y320000-0 | ||
C: 3-1 | 7420 km | 0R000000-0 | ||
C: 3-2 | 10600 km | Y202000-0 | ||
C: 3-3 | 15900 km | YS00000-0 | ||
C: 3-4 | 15900 km | YS00000-0 | ||
C: 3-5 | 21200 km | YS00262-9 |
Mainworld Data[edit]
Markham is the first planet in orbit around the K2 V star with an average distance of 0.29 AU. The planet orbits the star every 68.2 days. Markham rotates in retrograde to its star with a day length of 973.9 hours.
Mainworld Size (S)[edit]
This world is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.
Mainworld Atmosphere (A)[edit]
This world has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. While the thin atmosphere does not require survival gear this atmosphere also contains an unusual taint such as such as disease, a hazardous gas mix, pollutants, or sulfur compounds which requires the use of a Filter Mask. Some taints may require more protective equipment. TL–3 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.
Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)[edit]
This world
Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]
No information yet available.
Mainworld Map[edit]
No information yet available.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
Markham does not have native life.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Markham is a Solomani world colonized prior to the founding of the Second Imperium. During the Long Night it was a member of the Protectorate of Alba. It functions as a Solomani Navy and Army outpost on the border with the Third Imperium.
World Starport (Sp)[edit]
This world has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.
World Population (P)[edit]
This world has a population of 100,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).
World Government[edit]
This world has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. A colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.
World Law Level (L)[edit]
This world has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Machine guns, other automatic weapons, portable energy weapons, and other military weapons, body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.
World Technology Level (TL)[edit]
This world possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
- Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
- Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
- FTL: Jump Drive-1.
Category | Subcategory | Level |
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Common | High | A |
Low | 8 | |
Comfort | Energy | A |
Computers/Robotics | B | |
Communications | B | |
Medical | B | |
Environment | A | |
Transportation | Land | 9 |
Sea | A | |
Air | 8 | |
Space | A | |
Military | Personal | B |
Heavy | B | |
Novelty | F |
World Military[edit]
A Solomani Navy and Army base is located in the Markham system due to its proximity to the Third Imperium border and the large number of Imperial Navy bases located in the Old Expanses Sector.
World Economy[edit]
No information yet available.
World Demographics[edit]
Markham was colonized by Solomani settlers during the Rule of Man. Owing to its history as a member of the Protectorate of Alba and its location on the fridges of Humaniti settlement, the population is almost entirely descendent from the original Solomani settlers.
World Culture[edit]
No information yet available.
Historical Data[edit]
Markham was settled by one of Solomani families that colonized the systems around White (world). Their political desire for extreme personal and economic freedoms led these families to settle worlds far from the Terran Confederation and First Imperium. During the Rule of Man Markham was integrated into the Second Imperium.
After the collapse of the Second Imperium and the beginning of the Long Night the Protectorate of Alba was founded and Markham became a founding member. The Protectorate was a mutual defense and economic treaty that helped keep the member worlds from experiences the same degradation that other worlds faced. In 198 the Protectorate of Alba joined the Third Imperium as a client state and was dissolved after the member worlds were granted full citizenship in the Imperium.
In 871 Markham joined the Solomani Confederation as a founding member with the other former Protectorate worlds.
World Timeline[edit]
- Circa -2300 - Markham colonized
- Circa -2000 - Markham joins the Second Imperium
- -1776 - Collapse of the Rule of Man
- Circa -1800 - Protectorate of Alba founded
- 198 - Protectorate of Alba joins the Third Imperium
- 704 - Solomani Autonomous Region founded
- 871 - Markham joins the Solomani Confederation
- 990 - 1002 - Solomani Rim War
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
- [1] - Federation Development Agency - Leroy W.L. Guatney
- [2] - Leroy W.L. Guatney and Lewis Roberts
- Mongoose Traveller: Solomani
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
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